Winner. Scientist of the Year 2020

Irina Nekipelova

Academic title, degree: Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Philology
Fields of science: Languages and Literature
Research interest: Cognitive linguistics, cross-cultural communication, language globalization, theory of language, linguosynergetics, history of the Russian language, teaching methods of the Russian as a foreign language
Institution: Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University
Position: Head of the Department "Russian as a Foreign Language", Director of the Center of International Testing
Country: Russian Federation

Education: student, Russian Philology Faculty, Udmurt State University (1996-2001); PhD student, full-time course of study, Russian Philology Faculty, Udmurt State University (2001-2005); working for doctor's degree, full-time course of study, Institute of Modern Technologies in Mechanical and Auto-motive Engineering and Metallurgy, Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (2011-2014).

Work experience: Senior Lecturer, Linguistics Department, Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (2005-2006); Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (2006-2011); Head, Center of Testing and Educating “Russian as a Foreign Language”, Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (2006-2008); Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (2011-2015); Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (2006-2011); Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Languages, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia (2016-2017); Head, Department "Russian as a Foreign Language"; Director, Center of International Testing (2018-2020).

Author of 7 monographs (Russia, Germany, Poland) and more than 130 scientific publications (12 – WoS and Scopus).

Participant in international conferences: Cairo (Egypt, 2006), Washington (USA, 2007), Shanghai (China, 2008), Bratislava and Smolenice (Slovakia, 2009), Grodno (Belarus, 2009), Kaunas (Lithuania, 2010), Granada (Spain, 2010), Kharkov (Ukraine, 2011), West Wood (Canada, 2013), Kyoto (Japan, 2014 and 2019), Pula (Croatia, 2016, 2019, 2020), Zvolen (Slovakia, 2016), Istanbul (Turkey, 2016), Batumi (Georgia, 2017), Cheonan (South Korea, 2018), Beijing (China, 2019), Bangkok (Thailand 2020).

Winner of awards and diplomas: diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science of Udmurt Republic for merits in research activities, scientific contribution to the training of qualified specialists (2009), Letter of Thanks for many years of fruitful work on the development and improvement of the educational process, a significant contribution to the training of qualified specialists (2012), diploma and medal for professional activities of the European Chamber of Science and Industry ("Diploma di Merito" for 2016 on science, culture and education) (Eurochambers, Belgium, decision from 07.10.2016); Order of Catherine the Great "For the Service of Science and Enlightenment" (2017); Order of Alexander the Great "For scientific victories and achievements" (2017); Order "Primus inter pares" (2018); European scientific and industrial consortium “ESIC” (2017), diploma "Diploma confirms the high professionalism of the author" confirming the author's high professionalism and recognizing scientific developments that are significant and relevant for world science, marked by a bibliographic database based on the results WorldCat.

In 2020, the creation of the author's training program was completed. On its basis, the textbook "Russian as a foreign language: step by step" (in 10 parts) was published. Using this tutorial allows students to reach the B2 level during 1 year of study. The program was implemented as mandatory in the process of teaching Russian to foreign students at the Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University.

In 2020, the theory of linguistic interiorization was created. It show interiorization process as a linguistic action that is represented as a movement of a given external knowledge in the form of elements of the studied language into internal linguistic knowledge of a person in the process of his mastery of non-native language. The terms "linguistic interiorization" and "linguistic exteriorization" have been introduced into scientific use. Linguistic interiorization involves the mastering and adoption of a new linguistic reality by students through the prism of the native language. The purpose of the research is to identify the reasons for difficulties of linguistic interiorization when mastering a non-native language. Interiorization requires deep intellectual activity from a student. Interiorization is not only the result of subjectivity of thought, completing the process of acceptance by the individual of new linguistic knowledge, but also the result of its objectification, that is, the way of presenting thought in form of a socially acceptable structure.